The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1887-06-26

popular. People shut themselves up for
a few h hours with one or other of the
many books on this subject with which
the market lis just now flooded. and is
sue from this temporaryretirement fully
prepared, as they fondly believe, To read
the hand. As regards the three princi-
pal llnes-those of life. heart and head
--they get along fairly well: they fioun-
der little among the mounts, and hav-
ing nearly exhausted their stock of
knowledge when they come To the line
of fate and the chance lines, thep
give the reins To their imagina-
tions and deal out to their con-
sultants shipwrecks. wounds on
the head, carriage accidents. and all the
sins of the decalogue with appalling
prodigality. When asked the meaning
of some line which has, perhaps. no sig
nification IN palmistry, rather than con-
Tess ignorance thdy boldly announce il
as an indication of some event i'm the
life of their victim of the existence of
which they already have some knowI-
edge, or which they think il very likely
to occur; this often proves a good hit
and then these modern prophets dignity
this mere guesswork by the name OF
intuition. Now intuition, even where
il really exists, is a dangerous guide i'm
the matter of palmistry, and it is far
wiser to keep entirely to what the old
writers have handed down to us. 1t
takes years of patient study of these
works, and very tenacious memory
before anyone is really competent TO
read the hand with any degree of accu-
racy; and. even then, curious compli-
cations of the lines will occasionally
present themselves which require a
good deal of research before the true
meaning of them can be arrived at.
To those who are really interested i'm
this mystical study the slap-dash
drawing room palmistry is, of course, AN
;ibominasion; but perhaps the worst in
jury which this Old World science suf-
fers nowadays is at the hands of the
modern writers on the subject, who all,
or nearly all, seem disposed To deny its
affinity To astrology, with which il is
really inseparably connected. NJ. Des-
barolles. i'm his first book on the subject
of chiromancy. Les MYSTERIES de la
Main written when he was under the
influence of the mystic Eliphas Levi.a and
published nearly thirty years ago., pro-
duced what is really the best modern
book on the subject of palmistry: but i'm
his .'Dernieres Revelations" published
just before his death. he. with the view.
probably, of making his book more wide
ly sileable. pandered to the realistic ten
denotes of the present day, by recanting
a great part of the astrological matter
advanced in his earlier and far
better work. Craig and other modern
writers have followed in this truck. thus
rendering their works comparatively
worthless. One well known writer. while
producing book full of the wisdom of
the ancients, boldly disavows astrology
in the following sentence: The names
assigned tn the mounts, which are those
OF the principal seven planets. are not
given them by reason of any astrological
significations which they were supposed
To bear. but because we have been accus-
toned To connect certain characteristics
with certain gods of the pagan mythOl-
ogy. This is, of course, contrary to the
views of every ancient writer-Greek,
Latin. German, Spanish. Italian French
and Englisll-on this subject. who one
and all base the whole theory of palm
istry on planetary influences DR. Saun-
ders. i'm the preface to his exhaustive work
on palmistry and physiognomy. published
i'm 1911 and dedicated to his friend
Lilly, the great astrologer. says:-"For
our more orderly proceeding with the
body of this work, il is i'm the first place
Necessary to be observed that there are
seven planets called Stellar Grantees
wandering stars-which have each of
them its separate character as they are
used in astrologie; the which stars have
great power over inferior bodies and do
each OF them govern some part or other
of mans body, and they especially have
their material existence in the hand"
These astrological teachings of the old
masters in palmistry are not only inter
esting. but very useful i'm the matter of
reading the hand. For instance i'm de-
terInining the mounts-those terrible
stumbling blocks to all amateurs "A re-
gard to the type of hand given by each
planet would often set at rest that
doubtful matter. \ hand will often APP
pear to have the mounts of the
moon and that of Venus equally
developed: but, in order to determine
which planet is really dominant, we
must look to the shape ahd texture Of the
whole hand and if we find it presents
most forcibly the type given by Venus,
then this planet would be dominant
this of course also applies to all the other
mounts, and Is also "A great guide when
the mounts appear-as they frequently
do-to he misplaced.
The types are as follows The hands
of those born under the dominant in
fiuence of Venus are small, dimpled and
rather plump. with smooth fingers,
rather short than long. and with pointed
tips; the thumb is small, but the root of
1.-THE mount of Nenus-is of course
hand is rose-tinted. and the hand itself of
a delicate pinky white.
The Jupiterian hand is large, fieshy
and not very white. with square-tipped
fingers. thick at their base, and rather
long than short; the thumb is large and
the first phalanx of it-that next the
mails longer than the second.
The Saturnian hand is "A long, bOny
hand with spatulated. long and large
IaIntaH finO.ars. th.. tax Of lao. han
is hard, and the skin dry and of a yellow
color.
The hand of those born under the DOM
inant influence of the sun has smooth
fingers of the same length as the palm
of the hand, and with square tips, except
the third finger. which is generally
pointed; the thumb is of medium size,
with the first and second phalanx of
equal length: the hand is firm but not
hard in texture, and of a marble white
Ness.
The Mercurian hand is long. with thin
and supple fingers, generally all pointed,
but the fourth finger in these hands ia
always so: the thumb Is long; the hand
is delicate i'm texture and of "A soft yell
lowish white.
The hand typical of the dominance of
Mars is thick and strong, with short fin
gers very thick at the base and with
sIatuiated ups; the thumD is short ana
with a broad and spatualated tip, the
first phalanx of il is much longer than
the second; the texture of the hand is
hard. il is red in color, and the backs of
the fingers Is often covered with hairs.
The hand Of those born under the
moon have soft. large hands, dimpled at
the back like those of people born under
Venus. but the color is of blue white,
not roseate like the Venus hand: the fin
gers are spatulated and the thumb is
relatively short, with the first phalanx